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Examining Alternative Energy

Leslie Berlowitz, president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, began her introductory remarks to the academy’s Workshop on Social Science and the Alternative Energy Future, held at GW’s...

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Coaching Across Borders

By Julia Parmley

The soccer field on GW’s Mount Vernon Campus serves as home ground for GW men and women’s soccer teams.

But on May 16, it also served as a classroom for soccer...

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Combating Childhood Obesity

By Jennifer Eder

About one in four U.S. children ages 2 to 5 are overweight or obese.

Those rates, which are even higher for low-income, African-American and Hispanic children, are...

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App Planet

By Menachem Wecker

A fifth-grade teacher in the Clovis Unified School District in Fresno, Calif., by day, Derek Walter started writing...

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Academic Blogging

By Menachem Wecker

Andrew Sullivan’s blog, recently of Newsweek Daily Beast, draws an estimated 1.2 million unique viewers a month....

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Investing in Academics

By Jamie L. Freedman

After months of university-wide discussion and analysis, Provost Steven Lerman announced that the funds recently created by implementing the first set of...

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Becoming Resilient

If another major terrorist attack or a natural disaster hit U.S. soil, how quickly could the American public recover?

Daniel Kaniewski, assistant vice president and deputy director of GW’s...

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The Spirit of Compassion

Looking out from the lectern at Western Presbyterian Church, at his fellow graduates in the pews, Noble Freeman admitted he was a little jealous to see so many smiling families. Mr. Freeman...

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A Foot in the Door

By Laura Donnelly-Smith

Recent GW graduate Ashley Starks knew the process of finding her first post-college job wouldn’t be easy. She knew there would be challenges and that she would face...

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A Special Graduation

Among the 7,000 Colonials who graduated during GW’s Commencement weekend were 14 high school students.

The students are the first cohort of the GW Early College Program, a partnership with...